This Guide will be a walkthrough for the encoding and muxing of an 4th- & 5th-generation iPod touch, iPhone 4, or iPad 1st generation & 2 compatible file from a video file. This guide is for use by anyone, newbie or advanced user. This Guide assumes that you know how to create an AVS script and calculate video bitrate. If you do not know how to create an Avisynth script then go here. If you do not know how to calculate video bitrate then go here.

This section will walkthrough the encoding of an iPod-compatible video file using either Xvid or x264. You can't just use any settings to encode for the iPod, there are limits as it is a portable device and not capable of everything. Here's a table of the more generic restrictions.